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Summer '19 music: New Ragtime(ish)

8/30/2019

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Starts with ragtime-style rhythms but turns into something else entirely. Much of the piece is based on  conflicting (between the hands), and ever-changing rhythmic cycles that create not only syncopations but other similarly unpredictable rhythmic accents. The whole piece coming soon...
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Summer '19 new music: Etude for the Left Hand Alone

8/30/2019

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Summer '19 new music: Very Contemporary (a parody)

8/30/2019

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If you look a few posts below, you'll see a long, grumpy rant about the politics and aesethetics of contemporary music. In the piece below I've distilled the essence of that rant into music!

​Oscar Bettison is a Guggenheim award winner and professor of composition at one of the top conservatories in the country, and one time I attended a concert with this piece on the program:
Did you listen to the whole thing? Or give up after like 30 seconds? Rather than continue to tell you what in detail what I think of the piece, I wrote this revised and condensed parody instead! 
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Summer '19 new music, part 2: Blues-counterpoint

8/29/2019

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Another new piece, with a mix of swing rhythm, blues harmonies (to start), but Bach influence too, of course! And it ends with a comic, (really, kind of ridiculous) waltz. A rough 1st take phone recording
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New piano music from summer 2019, #1: Kunst der Mary

8/25/2019

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This summer, I've been blessed with the time and the inspiration to write more piano music than ever. I've started sharing most of these new pieces in snippets on my public facebook page, but for those who (including me) think facebook might be evil, I'm putting them here too! Here is one of the first of the summer, my second piece on the simple tune "Mary Had a Little Lamb." (Here's the first, from 2016)
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